UAE wins four awards at Gulf Theatre Festival in Kuwait

The UAE won five gold medals at the 5th Gulf Theatre for People of Determination held in Kuwait, apart from earning plaudits for the success of the play "1+1=1", all of it supervised by the Ministry of Community Development.

 During the participation of the Ministry of Community Development at the Gulf Theatre Festival, Mohamed Al Ghafli won the "best actor award", Abdulla Al Jarwan won for "best sound effects", Nabeel Al Mazmi for "best composition", while "1+1=1" won the best-integrated show award, Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported.

The play embodies the influential ideas, images and scenes with realistic visions when dealing with the People of Determination. Five Emirati actors, three of whom were People of Determination, took part in the play written and directed by Al Mazmi. The play is inspired by American writer Edward Albee's "Zoo Story" and is part of the fight club novel.

Wafa Hamad Bin Sulaiman, Director of Welfare and Rehabilitation for People of Determination at the Ministry of Community Development, stated that the ministry’s participation at the Gulf Theatre Festival was based on involving the People of Determination in acting, sharing their reality with the members of the community and not isolating these categories. The purpose of the screenplay was to transfer their ideas to a broader community in order to achieve inclusion and empowerment. It reflected the efforts and visions of the Ministry of Community Development to reinstate the people of determination as active members of the community.

The scenario symbolizes the crisis of modern man and the impact of capitalism on the aspects of his life in light of the psychological pressures he is experiencing under the influence of work or material pressures, in addition to the daily and social routine formed by contemporary life, which transformed man into a machine, as it stripped him of feelings.